King Qi went to complain without causing any waves.
It can only be turned into a joke.
Make Zhu Yunxuan smile.
The next day.
Early morning.
Fengtian Temple.
After Zhu Yunxuan accepted the worship of hundreds of officials, he got down to business.
"A few days ago, I asked you to make more suggestions on unifying land taxes."
"I am very pleased. There have been quite a few memorials sent over the past few days, and the elaborate arrangements have indeed been made with great care."
"I like it very much."
Zhu Yunxuan first affirmed the attitude of the officials.
Then his tone changed: "But!"
"The memorial you submitted is empty and boring! It is full of loopholes!"
"I don't like it very much!"
One moment, all officials were feeling complacent, and the next moment, they seemed to be falling into an abyss.
Like falling into an ice cellar!
As if falling from the clouds.
The officials wanted to defend themselves. They did spend a lot of effort in writing these memorials, otherwise they would not be able to make the articles as colorful as possible.
But I thought about the contents inside myself...
To be honest, they themselves don’t know what they are talking nonsense about!
Yang Shiqi, the Minister of Counselor's Office, stepped forward even more ashamed.
Said: "His Royal Highness Taisun is right, Wei Chen also feels that there is not much that can be implemented in the memorial written by me."
"The issue of unifying land taxes is still too complicated after all."
"Weichen believes that we need to slowly discuss it before we can come up with a suitable charter."
"There is really no way to solve it in a short period of time..."
Other ministers of the Council also seconded the proposal.
In their view, the issue of unified land tax is essentially an impossible problem to solve.
There were many exorbitant taxes and levies in ancient times.
The land tax is also extremely complicated.
Many exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are mixed into the land tax. If they are apportioned, the composition of this tax will become very complicated.
Although Taisun was benevolent and abolished the corvee.
But some taxes that should be collected are still being collected. For example, why are the people in Suzhou Prefecture so miserable?
The main reason is that they have to bear the tax of leasing official land and adding official land.
But private land is not used, and it is often even tax-free because of one's fame.
The gap between each other is often several times or even ten times larger!
This naturally made the people of Suzhou Prefecture miserable.
This is the shortcoming of Guantian, so Zhu Yunzhen wants to change and can no longer follow the same routine.
But Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to just manage official land, but wanted to manage private land as well, unify land taxes, and completely solve the problem of land annexation.
At the same time, we try to improve the motivation of ordinary farmers as much as possible.
Further liberate productivity!
Seeing the reactions of all the ministers, Zhu Yunxuan suddenly realized that perhaps he was not a useless talent in the court.
But the questions he gave were too far ahead of this era.
No one can think of the ultimate answer to this question. All they can think of are simple things.
It's not that he is arrogant.
But Zhu Yunxuan's music is not what the Ming Dynasty should have...
Naturally, we cannot expect everyone to be a genius ahead of their time.
Moreover, the ministers and officials were basically enough to deal with some of the daily affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that their abilities are not outstanding.
Ordinary people still make up the majority in the world.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yunxuan felt relieved and no longer struggled with the problem that no one in the court could keep up with his thoughts.
Instead, he said without any doubt: "No need."
"I already have specific ideas and regulations, you can just follow them."
Zhu Yunzhen slowly explained his thoughts.
"The simplest and most direct way to unify land taxes is to nationalize the land!"
"Collect all of it as official land, then distribute it to the government, and formulate a unified land tax."
As soon as this statement came out.
All the officials were shocked.
Except for some people who really have no talent at all.
One after another stood up to oppose.
"Your Highness! No!"
"Yes, Your Highness, isn't this the well-field system? Although it is an ancient method, it is no longer suitable for today!"
"My grandson, think twice! People regard their land as their wealth and life! If we rashly take away people's land and return it to the state... it may arouse people's anger and cause huge changes!"
The ministers objected fiercely.
Zhu Yunzhen was not angry, but said calmly: "Lonely knows this."
"So what I asked you to do is not a simple well-field system."
All the officials were stunned.
Not a simple well-field system?
What is the meaning of this statement?
Could it be said that the well-field system is still complicated?
He could only cast his curious eyes on Taisun and wait for his explanation.
"Actually, it cannot be called the well-field system. This idea of Gu has nothing to do with the well-field system."
"I'm just giving you a reference to facilitate your understanding."
Zhu Yunzhen slowly explained his plan.
"Gu does intend to nationalize all the land, but this state-owned land is not like the official land in the past. It has all the ownership of the land."
"It's just nominal ownership."
"In fact, the production rights and management rights are all allocated to the people. Except that they are not allowed to be transferred privately, they are very loose and free."
"Furthermore, Gu will not take the people's fields for free, but will buy back all the fields from the people and landlords through redemption."
"In this way, the people got the money and did not lose the land in their hands. It was only nominally nationalized."
"Naturally it will not arouse public resentment."
Zhu Yunxuan spoke in great detail, mainly because what he said was too transcendent of this era.
It must be explained in detail so that the ministers and officials can understand it.
Otherwise, you are just playing the piano to a cow...
As Zhu Yunzhen explained, the officials gradually began to understand Taisun's thinking, although they still didn't quite understand what nominal ownership was.
How can we allocate the so-called production rights and management rights to the people?
But they still understood Taisun's thoughts.
The main core idea is to use money to redeem the land!
"The regulations for redeeming land were already in place when the road was being built, and they were pretty well done."
"Just follow the last regulations."
"But at the beginning, don't take such big steps. We will pilot it in Suzhou first. When the effect is seen, we will gradually promote it to the entire Ming Dynasty!"
The reason why Zhu Yunxuan asked King Qi to redeem the land last time was.
There are actually two purposes.
Planning for King Qi is just one of them.
The second purpose is to pave the way for his true dream of harvesting land!
With King Qi's lesson learned from the past.
Anyone who is planning to do anything in the future must think twice!
But the ministers and officials were still a little confused.
A minister of the Advisory Office stood up and asked: "Great Sun, may I ask what is the meaning of this nominal ownership?"
"What do we mean by production rights and management rights?"
“After the fields are harvested, how will they be distributed?”
Zhu Yunxuan looked at the minister.
This is a practical person, and the questions he asked are not only critical, but also very detailed.
Zhu Yunzhen naturally did not hesitate to explain.
Said: "Land, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than a means of production."
"And as long as it's the means of production...well..."
Zhu Yunzhen looked at the blank and ignorant expressions of the ministers below and had to change his words.
It’s still too difficult to tell them this…
"To put it bluntly, land is actually used to grow food!"
Zhu Yunxuan changed to plain language and said: "Do the people care who owns this field?"
"Not really!"
"What the people really care about is who owns the food grown in this field!"
"It's just that under the current circumstances, people directly equate who owns this field with who owns the food grown in this field!"
"And what the court has to do is to separate these two points!"
"Nominally, this field belongs to the imperial court, but the food grown belongs to the people who cultivate this field!"
"And the people have complete autonomy over this land and can use it however they want!"
"My Ming Dynasty used money to buy back this name from the people, and distributed it to all the people through contracts!"
"I hope that in the future, everyone will have land to farm and everyone will have land to live in!"
"The poor have a place to stand!"
This time, Zhu Yunxuan spoke very falsely and thoroughly.
The ministers and officials felt a sudden realization in their hearts.
This policy formulated by Taisun actually does not harm anyone's interests at the moment. On the contrary, no one will suffer in this plan!
Because Ming Dynasty was using real money to redeem the land.
And after buying it, it is different from the previous official land. People have to bear high rents and taxes if they want to farm.
Instead, it is given to the people for farming free of charge.
It only belongs to the imperial court in name. In fact, what happens to this land depends on the people themselves.
If you grow food, you will get it; if you don’t, there will be no food.
The court does not ask you for any rent. From now on, all the fields belong to the Ming Dynasty and there is no rent, which saves a lot of problems.
All that is needed is to establish a unified land tax system.
"The great road leads to simplicity...the great road leads to simplicity!"
An old minister with white beard and hair could not help but slap his thigh and started shouting.
So excited.
The seemingly impossible thing turned out to be so easy to solve in the hands of Taisun!
The ancients said that governing a big country is like cooking small dishes.
Don't deceive me!
The other ministers couldn't help but discuss with each other.
In Fengtian Hall, it was extremely noisy for a while.
But this time Zhu Yunzhen did not stop it, but allowed them to discuss. Only after discussing with each other can everyone better understand the policies they have formulated.
When implemented, there will be no deviation.
below.
The more the ministers and officials discussed, the more they felt that Taisun's idea was brilliant!
No one's interests were harmed in the whole process, and the land was collected easily. Not only was it able to solve the problem of land annexation from the root.
After all, nominally, this field belongs to Ming Dynasty.
Naturally, it cannot be transferred at will without permission!
The only bad thing... is that it's very expensive! Very expensive!
But is this problem still a problem for Daming?
Even the Ministry of Finance, who was in charge of finance, clapped his hands proudly and barely said three words.
Not short of money!
"If there is no objection, let's make arrangements."
"Let's start the pilot project from Suzhou Prefecture. We want to see the results as soon as possible!"
"Don't let me down!"
Zhu Yunxuan knocked on the officials.
In case these people are not active enough in doing things.
However, Zhu Yunxuan underestimated the enthusiasm of the officials for the great cause of land reclamation, which was done without any reason or compensation.
Even after harvesting the fields, they still suffered a series of unfair treatment.
The hundreds of officials were naturally opposed to it. After all, if there were the most landlords and gentry anywhere, then there were the most landlords in Fengtian Palace!
Everyone present is a big landowner!
And he’s also a tax-free landowner!
But the plan proposed by Zhu Yunxuan not only did not harm their interests, but instead gave them money to compensate them and use the money to redeem their fields.
He even proposed that he would only occupy nominal ownership.
Naturally, Baiguan was not so resistant.
However, the most important thing is that the officials are not only landlords, they are also civil servants and military generals.
Anyone with ambition.
How could you not know what a great achievement it is to give the poor a place to stand? !
There are thousands of mansions in Ande, and a large number of poor people in the world are happy!
Owning a house and owning land has been the life that all people have dreamed of since ancient times!
In order to make their name go down in history, they naturally mustered up all their energy!
He bent down and knelt down in submission.
A sound like a mountain roaring and a tsunami echoed through the sky.
"Great Sun Shengming!"
"The Ming Dynasty will last forever!"
(End of chapter)
